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تخش

Persian

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Etymology

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Related to تخشیدن (taxšidan, “to sit on the first place”), from Old Persian [script needed] (taxša, “arrow”), from Proto-Iranian *taxša (“bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to run”).[1]

Noun

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تخش • (taxš)

  1. a kind of arrow
  2. crossbow

References

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  1. ^ “toxic”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

Further reading

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  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “تخش”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “تخش”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 426
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